As a tale of psychic adventure, The Lodge of the Lynx makes for suspenseful reading. Readers may be drawn to it because of this, from a previous interest in Kurtz's other books, or for diverse reasons such as chance or an interest in the occult. Novels set in present-day Scotland are not plentiful in the U.S., so the setting could also attract some attention.

The book projects a black-and-white view of good and evil. Evil exists; it has to be fought on various levels; attempts to explain it away as caused by a bad environment or the workings of coincidence merely delay the inevitable showdown. The theme contrasts sharply with the twentieth-century idea of all values as relative. At the same time Kurtz does not base this outlook on any specific religious creed. All men and women of goodwill are needed in the fight against...